The CRS Gallery is pleased to announce CODE: Drawings and Visual Poetry by Teo Yamamoto. The exhibition will will be on display from May 7- June 18, 2011. An opening reception will be held on May 7 from 6 - 8 pm and will include a poetry reading by Teo accompanied by Hacci on Jew's harp and bandoneon. The art works in this exhibition consist of ink and paper drawings, chapbooks, visual poems of varying sizes. Many are composed on black paper. The types and combinations of ink and paper are a secret, an alchemical code discovered through much labor and treasured by the artist for its synergistic luminescence. The […]

The CRS Gallery announces the Exhibition "Pretty Dresses, Long Legs... Dance Paintings by Meeke Mutter." The exhibition includes expressionistic acrylic paintings of dancers as well as several abstract water-colors and will be on view from September 10 - October 31, 2011. Meeke Mutter is an emerging artist from The Netherlands. She is well known for her beautiful and colorful abstract figurative dance art. She works in acrylic, small works. You will find artists in pretty dresses and with long legs on her canvas like Tina Turner, Natalie Porter, Polina Semionova, The Andrews Sisters or Ella Fitzgerald. Her backgrounds are wild and subtle at the same time. She also makes abstract […]

The CRS Gallery announces a solo exhibition by Junko Yamada of art works composed of thousands of pieces of rice paper in the tradition of harie. The exhibition will be on view from November 4, 2011 - January 4, 2012. By applying modern subject matter and lively colors to a traditional Japanese art form, Junko creates unique works of art on rice paper. These collages are each composed of thousands of pieces of rice paper in the tradition of harie, a style of Japanese art. "Japanese artists have been using unique, strong papers for centuries, since the Nara period. The Japanese value paper in their art and use it in their daily […]

The CRS Gallery announces a solo exhibition by Lex Braes of works created on paper, primarily with home-made water-based paints. The exhibition will be on view from January 27 - March 2012. What does a painter do? He paints. Every day, in the case of Lex Braes. In this small show, concurrent with his aptly titled exhibition, "Routine," at www.showroom http://www.showroom170.com on the LES through Feb 26 , a sampling of small works on paper from the past six years provides a window into Braes' routine of approaching a handful of images again and again, in some cases year after year:  a head resting sidways on an arm, a simple architectural structure, a […]

Mami Family Diary "Usually my husband works until very late every night, and the kids and I are already bed when he comes home. I felt we didn't have enough time to talk, so I began keeping an illustrated diary in which I could share with him what was going on in our lives.  In this diary I would record what we did, felt, thought or planned for the future, etc. When he comes home each night, he opens the diary and receives some impression of our day and can feel closer to us. Recently, our five-year-old son began wanting to draw in this diary and join in this communication." Mami By sharing a glimpse of […]

CRS is delighted to announce an exhibition of works from its private collection by three female Japanese artists (photographers Miori Inata and Mayumi Nashida and painter Chiharu Nishiyama) who are friends of CRS and widely active in the global art world. The exhibition will be on display from January 22 - February 26, 2013.   西山千春/ Chiharu Nishiyama Chiharu Nishiyama is a painter who has participated in numerous international exhibitions in Europe as well as in Japan. Her inspiration is essentially religious and philosophical. This painting of a unicorn was created by Chiharu specifically for CRS and the beautiful frame carefully chosen to compliment it. Through Chiharu Nishiyama, we meet the […]